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Novi Ligure workers strike to demand continued production
Workers at the Ex Ilva steel plant in Novi Ligure, in northern Italy, held a strike and assembly on Monday.
The strike was part of action across all the group’s sites.
Workers and unions want production at Novi to continue after the company decided to stop its northern plants.
A union representative said 550 families could be left without work.
Workers also fear delays in support payments because these are now handled by Italy’s social security agency, INPS, rather than advanced by the company.
The unions want the government to renew its commitment to an industrial plan for Taranto and the other affected areas, with steelmaking at its centre.
They also want a social plan with solutions for all Ex Ilva employees.
Workers at the Ex Ilva plant in Novi Ligure went on strike to demand continued production and jobs.
The stoppage included an assembly and a rally organized by Fim Cisl, Fiom Cgil and Uilm Uil.
Uilm representative Alberto Pastorello said the company’s decision to stop northern factories put 550 families at risk.
Workers and unions also called on the government to reaffirm an industrial plan for the Taranto area and other affected territories.
Pastorello warned that changes to how income-support payments are advanced could delay payments until late December.
- Who
- Workers at the Novi Ligure Ex Ilva plant, alongside Fim Cisl, Fiom Cgil and Uilm Uil.
- What
- They went on strike and held an assembly and rally to demand jobs and continued production.
- When
- Monday; the article was published on 12 October 2026.
- Where
- The Ex Ilva plant in Novi Ligure, in Alessandria.
- Why
- They oppose the prospect of no clear future from mid-November and want production and an industrial plan to continue.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
We are on strike to ask for one thing only: work. We are asking to continue production in Novi.
We risk leaving 550 families without work.
Workers at Novi Ligure began the strike, assembly and rally.
Workers face what the article describes as a lack of prospects.
Pastorello said the first possible income-support payments could arrive around the end of December.
- Plant
- Ex Ilva, Novi Ligure
- Location
- Alessandria
- Unions
- Fim Cisl, Fiom Cgil and Uilm Uil
- Families at risk
- 550
- Possible first income-support payments
- Late December
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